Flash CS3 Tutorial: Primitive Shape Tools. The Rectangle Primitive Tool and the Oval Primitive Tool.	Home • Tutorials • Forum • Webwasp Members • Templates • Mates • Food • Contact

Free Flash Tutorial - Primitive Shape Tools

Free Flash Tutorial

The Primitive Shape Tools are new to Adobe Flash CS3. There are two of these new Primitive Tools, the Rectangle Primitive Tool and the Oval Primitive Tool . Adobe uses the word Primitive to mean shapes which characteristics can be edited via the Property Inspector. This means that you can draw a rectangle and then decide to change the roundness of the corners etc. The new Primitive Tools have a purple hue when selected:

New Primitive Tools:

Rectangle Primitive Tool:

Oval Primitive Tool:

With the standard Rectangle Tool your ability to edit is limited. For example if you wished to change the rounded corners you would need to delete your rectangle and re-draw it with the new rounded corners. The original Rectangle and Oval tools are still accessible in Flash CS3. These original shape tools have a blue hue when selected:

Original Shape Tools:

Rectangle Tool:

Oval Tool:

All of these tools are accessible from a drop down menu in the Tools Panel. Access it by holding down your mouse over the current shape tool:

If the Tools Panel is closed, open it: Window > Tools (Ctrl F2)

Accessing the shape tools by holding down the mouse over the current shape tool.

Note: The PolyStar Tool has no Primate version yet. I am not sure why Adobe failed to finish the update but I guess that will be done in the next version?

 

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